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Behind The
BeauTiful fOreverS
kaTherine BOO
Katherine Boo spent three years in a makeshift settlement
near Mumbai Airpor t researching the difficult and
challenging lives of the people of modern India. Described
as the result of “a bewildering age of global change and
inequality made human”, Boo’s documentation of the
people living in the Annawadi settlement is almost hard
to believe. Poverty is rife, yet Boo introduces individuals of
this underground world to tell of their stories, their hopes
and their dreams for a good life.